When I experience symptoms of my psychiatric illness, I feel embarrassed, or ashamed --- much as with my addiction. I don't want to see anyone or be seen. Often I feel misunderstood and rejected as well. Yet what I need is to feel accepted and understood.
I am not certain what the word crazy means to anyone else, but I cannot accept the term. I will not be called "crazy." I am a person who experiences two no-fault illnesses, addiction and psychiatric illness. But first, I am a person --- like everyone else.
I can become an advocate for myself and others with psychiatric or emotional illnesses, and do something like joining the local chapter of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
~Today I Will Do One Thing...Hazelden Meditations~
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